In 11 Points, All You Need To Know About Your Candidate Before Casting Your Vote
Before you cast your vote, it’s extremely important to know who you are voting for. What’s the background of the candidate? What are his/her previous achievements in governance? What are the red flags...
View ArticleWho Cares About The Menstrual Hygiene Of Sex Workers In India?
From the time we’re children, we’re constantly told that health is wealth. Yet, when it comes to menstrual hygiene, the popular adage falls apart, and an uncomfortable silence takes its place. This...
View ArticleIf You Score 3/10 On This Quiz, You Could End Up Harming India’s Future
With little protection or support from adults, deprived of education and healthcare, children in street situations in India remain one of the most vulnerable sections of society in India. If a...
View Articleइन 14 पॉइंट्स में जानिये क्या हैं आपके वोटिंग राइट्स
हमारी उम्र का 18वां साल ज़िंदगी का एक बेहद अहम पड़ाव होता है। 18 साल के होते ही हमें वो सभी अधिकार मिलते हैं जो देश के किसी भी बालिग नागरिक यानि कि एडल्ट सिटीजन को प्राप्त हैं। लेकिन इन अधिकारों के साथ...
View Articleऔर इस तरह मेरे पहले पीरियड की कहानी अपराधबोध भरी थी…
आज भी हमारे छोटे से कस्बे में पीरियड्स खुसुर-पुसुर करने वाला ही विषय है। आज भी लड़कियों को इन दिनों के दौरान शारीरिक तकलीफों के साथ-साथ मानसिक तकलीफों से गुजरना पड़ता है। आज भी घर जाकर हम बता दें कि...
View ArticleFrustrated With Shitty Coffee, How An Entrepreneur Decided To Stir Things Up
By Arman Sood: India is one of the largest consumers of coffee in the world, yet 90% of our coffee is exported! Rooted in the spirit of Make in India, our vision at Sleepy Owl Coffee is to produce a...
View ArticleThe Smart City Dream: Why All’s Not Well In The Govt’s Grand Plan
C0-authored by Maya Roy: From 1975, when the first concrete step towards addressing the issues cities was taken by the Indira Gandhi government by constituting a task force on towns and cities, to the...
View ArticleLucknow Students Smash The Notion That Millennials Are ‘Too Cool’ To Care...
As I asked, “Can a single vote change anything?”, the crowd gave a resounding “YES!”. In the 2014 General Elections, only half of the over 100 million registered first-time voters actually went out and...
View Articleलखनऊ के स्टूडेंट्स ने किया साबित कि वो नहीं हैं वोटिंग को लेकर बेपरवाह
जब मैंने पूछा, “क्या एक वोट से कुछ बदलाव आ सकता है?” मेरे सामने बैठे लोगों के बीच से एक ज़ोरदार आवाज़ आई “हां!” 2014 के लोकसभा चुनावों से पहले 10 करोड़ से भी ज़्यादा ऐसे युवा वोटिंग के लिए रजिस्टर्ड थे जो...
View ArticleHow I Fought ‘The Glamour Of Achieving More’ To Build A Premier Apparel Brand
As told to Nitya Sriram: Growing up, I had never thought that one day I would be an entrepreneur. My entrepreneurial journey, in fact, began after I completed my postgraduate studies in the States and...
View Article10 Absolutely Valid Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Exercise The Power Of Your Vote
If you are a first-time voter (or will become one soon), you may still remember those school lessons about how important voting was to the health of a democracy. Your teacher may have even said stuff...
View Articleये बिहारी दिल नहीं स्टिरियोटाइप तोड़ता है
ऐ बिहारी, चल बे बिहारी साइड हो, देख बिहारी जैसी हरकते कर रहा है, ओए सही से खा ना बिहारियों की तरह क्यों खा रहा है, इन बिहारियों ने गंध मचा दिया है इधर आकर। अगर आप दिल्ली, मुंबई जैसे बड़े शहरों में पले...
View ArticleHow A Special Friendship With A 9-Year-Old Broke My Notions About Street...
Whenever we see street children picking up plastic bottles or stuff from the roadside, the first notion that comes to our mind is that they are drug addicts and thieves. The following incident changed...
View ArticleHow I Started A Junk Food Brand That Keeps You Healthy
By Soham Ghosh: I was morbidly obese as a teenager. It was only when I clocked 120 kg on the weighing scale that I realised I needed to change my lifestyle or risk getting serious diseases. Thus, my...
View ArticleTobacco Kills 7 Million Every Year: How I Am Trying Hard To Not Be One Of Them
Posted Anonymously: I still remember the day I took my first drag from a cigarette. I was a postgraduate student, I had just turned 22 – and as is custom for university folk, I was at a party. The...
View ArticleKaali’s Story Shows How Many Children In India Are Lured Into Labour
Meet Kaali. The staff members of her school in Pai village call her ‘Dr Kaali’. Surprised when her headmistress ‘ma’am’ told her that she too could be a doctor once she grew up, she has been addressed...
View ArticleIf You Score 3/10 On This Quiz, You’ve Probably Never Voted In Your Life
Whether you are a first-time voter or have voted several times, those voting rules and regulations can sometimes still confuse. What if, say, you wanted to bring your pet along? Many such questions may...
View ArticleHow India’s Beedi Rollers Risk Their Lives To Fuel A ₹7,500 Crore Cruel Industry
By Hitesh Sharma and Aniket Singh: Beedis are the poor people’s alternative to smoking cigarettes – and rolling them provides employment to millions in rural India. While the job is a source of income...
View ArticleHow A 10-Year-Old Rag Picker Chotti Is Breaking Out Of Forced Labour Through...
By Aadya Sinha: My prescribed reading for class 12 contained an excerpt from Anees Jung’s “Lost Spring“, a book about the lost childhood of child labourers in India. The story dealt with one particular...
View ArticleIf You See A Child Working As Labour And Do Nothing, You’re Part Of Their...
By Deepanjali Rao: Have you ever had a child serve you a glass of water at your friend’s or relative’s place? Did you feel bad about it? Perhaps for a while, before you got back to doing your thing...
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